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9/11HOW DO YOU PROVE ART IS HUMAN-MADE? The Human-Made Art Standard HMAS Version 1.0
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This book began with a single question asked by the artists, institutions, and collectors across the world, in the age of AI :
“How do you prove that art is human-made?”
Before 2024, the question rarely arose. Visual art was produced by humans. The question of whether a
given work was human-made was not, in practice, a question that required systematic answering. You
could look at the artist. You could visit the studio. The history of the object provided its own evidence.
That has changed.
Generative AI systems now produce images that are visually indistinguishable from hand-made work.
The change happened faster than institutions expected, faster than legal frameworks adapted, and faster
than artists in most of the world were given the tools to respond.
The question is now structural. It will not go away. It will intensify.
This book is a response to that structural question. Not a legal response. Not a technological solution. A
conceptual one: a framework that any artist, anywhere, can apply to their own practice — without
registration, without institutional permission, without fee.
The Human-Made Art Standard (HMAS) defines what it means for art to be human-made in terms that
are legible to human readers, machine systems, archives, institutions, collectors, and courts.
It is built on three things every artist already has: the capacity to declare, the capacity to leave a trace,
and the capacity to document.
Tendai Frank Tagarira (FatbikeHero)
